I have to view a log file on Debian server which is written in Persian by a third party software. Is this possible to have UTF-8 + Unicode support in tty? I'm looking for solutions based on emacs or ...

I am running a few un*ces and I have now grasped the power of using different ttys (Ctrl+alt+F(x)).
Yesterday, I attached a second monitor. I was able to configure x to extend my desktop, and I became ...

I'm writing a bash script that disconnects idle sessions but writes to the tty a few seconds before terminating it to make sure it really is not being used.
The format for write is write user [tty].
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I have an embedded system, a beaglebone black to be specific. This SBC runs Debian wheezy 7.4, and a custom 3.8.x kernel. Patched for this hardware. Anyway, the title pretty much says it all. I can ...

I have a PC with no mouse or keyboard, but it is connected to a monitor. I was wondering if is it possible to open a program remotely (like via SSH) in a specific tty (like tty1) so I would able to ...

I dpkg-reconfigured console-setup on my Linux Mint 17 install. Now when running long-output commands, such as apt-get, the tty doesn't scroll at all. If I hit enter a couple of times, I get new lines, ...

I wanted to know if there is any possibility of login to other tty sessions. Someone has mistakenly changed the root su password. One of the session is already logged in as root. So any possibility ...

I'm not sure if I used the right term, but by "tty" I understand the console that you can switch to using ctrl+alt+f2 key combination. echo $TERM points to linux. Anyway, when I enter the tmux mode I ...

When I press [Ctrl+Alt+F<1-6>] it takes me to tty1 through tty6 respectively, no problem. But at the login prompt, if I try to login with my username and password, it just immediately takes me back ...

I want to paste some text into a terminal and save it to a file without using an editor, but just 'cat'.
But too long lines or tabs in text make it impossible to do so with a simple command like "cat ...

I have access to a machine running SunOS 5.10 (called solaris). I also have access to a RedHat machine (called redhat).
ssh -tt seems not to give me output if run from solaris to solaris, but works ...

On gnu.org site there is GNU Head that can be display on terminal it have XTerm compatible (Normal documented ANSI Codes) but it also contain TTY version (it work on Cygwin, didn't test in XTerm or ...

I recently disabled the graphical login manager on my Ubuntu and started using startx. But when the computer turns on, instead of giving me a login prompt in one of the TTYs (I think that's how you ...

I installed a virtual box in my Ubuntu host, and then installed another Ubuntu on my virtual box. Everything is alright except when I try to enter tty1-6 in the virtual one, I just enter tty1-6 in my ...

From some time usually record long outputs with tee to later less them, this is awesome to review configure and make outputs and such, but fails when the script or program is installation like, asking ...

I have two devices that are continuously feeding data through ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1. I have php scripts that are using this data. The problem I am running into is that sometimes the feed just kind of ...

The graphics card on my computer has inputs for (at least) two separate monitors. I have one monitor that is high resolution, and I like using it for X (anything graphical). My other monitor, however, ...

I'm creating a kiosk PC at the moment and I'm wondering if this is possible:
When the PC is started and Linux Debian boots and I wonder if it's possible to start the command startx respectively xinit ...

I have a CANbus to USB adapter (Softing CANusb) that we are using for a project (see attached picture bellow). This device has Windows drivers and a Windows API in order to access the data in the CAN ...

I and others are desperately trying to port Android 4/ICS/JB/CM10.1 from the LG Optimus 2X/P990 to the LG G2X/P999 cell phone but we haven't been able to get the phone's Qualcomm mdm6600 radio/modem ...

When I'm switching to native console with Ctrl+Alt+Fn I have wrong keyboard maping. I want to set keymap proper to my language. In KDE, web browser, konsole etc. everything is OK.
So, how to change ...

When working with EMACS over SSH, is there any way to spawn a new frame of the same emacs session on a different terminal?
In my use case, I have screen running, so I have multiple terminals, and can ...

I have two keyboards (one internal and one external) and I want to split-screen Linux video output so I'll have tty on one half and X11 on second half and I want redirect input from external keyboard ...

Specifically, I have an Ubuntu 10.04 system with a headless Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine, and I'm looking for a way to have it set up so pressing ctrl+alt+F8 will take me into another X client which ...

When I was testing openSUSE about a week ago, I noticed that tty1 (yes, just tty1) had the openSUSE background. I want to do the same in Ubuntu.
I found a way using fbsplash. I'm not too keen on that ...